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I always loved to eat and I think that it is only natural that I also developed an interest in the anthropology of food – although I never managed to really get into it as much as I wanted to, there were other topics that I worked on.

Here are two interesting links I just came about and share them here, also as a kind of note for myself. Should consider to read more on this!

1. Using Video to share research on food insecuriy

This is of interest to me because there is a very long discussion on why anthropologists, social/cultural ones especially, are so rarely contributing to the public discourse, even though they have so much to say.

The newly established FoodAnthropology blog has this interesting post on how research can be shared through social media such as youtube.

In addition, I have found blogs to be a great opportunity for anthropologist to share their thoughts and expertise – even though it would be worthwile to analyze who is actually reading the blogs – is it again mainly anthropologists or does the internet/blogosphere also introduce more non-anthropologist readers, too?

Interesting thesis that also accounts for the role distinction between men and women, the article mentions that women as those who cooked became subservient to men. What the article does not mention is why women supposedly became the cookers (probably because they had to stay home to care for their kids anyway) so this needs to be found out by reading the book.